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From: polemon <polemon@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: {nntp:news} in server-buffer. Causing probs at startup
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:59:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54h6s7F20rcn3U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877iu4pxwq.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk>

On 02/26/2007 07:38 PM, Adam � wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:42:07 +0100, polemon wrote:
> 
>> Whenever I start Gnus, I get the following error:
>> "nntp (news) open error: ''. Continue? (y or n)"
> 
> What did you set the variable gnus-select-method to?
> 
> If you haven't set it, perhaps it would help set it like this:
> 
>     (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))

I used this, and it gave me another failure message, ans wasn't even 
going any further.

But instead of (nnnil "") i entered (nntp "<my nntp server>") and it 
works quite well!

Thanks for your Help

--polemon

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-25 23:42 [Gnus] " polemon
2007-02-26 18:38 ` Adam Sjøgren
2007-02-26 22:59   ` polemon [this message]

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